SouthAsiaSource
Feb 18, 2021
The republican system is our only clear pathway to long-term peace in Afghanistan
By
Omar Sadr
The prospect of a political settlement with the Taliban is testing Afghanistan’s nascent democracy more than ever before in the last eighteen years. Indeed, the country’s hard-won republican system, which the Taliban opposes in favor of a narrow Islamic Emirate, is currently facing an existential threat. It must be protected and strengthened at all costs.
